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"back to my dad's time, and ronald reagan's time. they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support, he said. reagan would be, quote, criticized for doing the things that he did." that earned jeb bush this response today from anti-tax enforcer and reagan worshipper, grover norquist. "there's a guy who watched his father throw away his presidency on a two to one ratio of spending cuts and tax increase promise, and he thinks he's sophisticated by saying that he'd take a ten to one promise. he doesn't understand, he's just agreed to walk down the sam alley his dad did with the same gang and he thinks he's smart. you walk down that alley, you don't come out." joining me now, msnbc's john heilemann and jonathan capehart. john heilemann, you wonder if the younger generation of republicans like some of these current governors understood what ronald reagan actually did as president, and the kind of compromises that he actually made with democrats. >> well, lawrence, some of them clearly do. governor bush understands exactly -- >>
"back to my dad's time, and ronald reagan's time. they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support, he said. reagan would be, quote, criticized for doing the things that he did." that earned jeb bush this response today from anti-tax enforcer and reagan worshipper, grover norquist. "there's a guy who watched his father throw away his presidency on a two to one ratio of spending cuts and tax increase promise, and he thinks he's sophisticated by saying that he'd take a...
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. >> your idol was ronald reagan. he compromised. >> he didn't compromise his values. >> the fact is you never compromise on principals. if people on the far left have a principal they want to stand by and those of us on the right should not either. >> karen, it's like he is in line with some of the leadership in his party that just seem to hate the word or the thought of compromising for a greater good. >> yeah, it's become the new c-word that you should not say. certainly i think that will make continuing to have a divided congress if that's where we end up, it will make things even more difficult. >> dana, let me be clear about the reason why this is so concerning to me. when you look at the fact that lugar was consistently rated as a strong conservative not a person in the wrong party, his lifetime con servive rating was 77% so here is a man, 77% rated conservative, yet he was defeated last night by 22%. in 2008 he won by 87% of the vote. last night he lost by 22% of the vote. if someone raided that conservative c
. >> your idol was ronald reagan. he compromised. >> he didn't compromise his values. >> the fact is you never compromise on principals. if people on the far left have a principal they want to stand by and those of us on the right should not either. >> karen, it's like he is in line with some of the leadership in his party that just seem to hate the word or the thought of compromising for a greater good. >> yeah, it's become the new c-word that you should not say....
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ronald reagan, country came first, not elections. >> in the spotlight tonight, romney as reagan. earlier this week, jeb bush questioned whether either his father, george h.w. bush, or ronald reagan, could get the republican presidential nomination today, saying, back to my dad's time and ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support. reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did. some republicans took issue with those comments, including former minnesota governor and current vice presidential contender, tim pawlenty, who called mitt romney reagan-esque this morning on "morning joe." >> you know, we just nominated mitt romney, or presumptively nominated mitt romney, who is in the reagan tradition. a conservative with a conservative record, governed effectively in a blue state, working across the aisle. somebody who's produced results. so to look at that and just say, you know, the party wouldn't be capable of endorsing a ronald reagan-type figure today, i think mitt romney is a ronald reagan-type figure. >> last night, fox news's
ronald reagan, country came first, not elections. >> in the spotlight tonight, romney as reagan. earlier this week, jeb bush questioned whether either his father, george h.w. bush, or ronald reagan, could get the republican presidential nomination today, saying, back to my dad's time and ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support. reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did. some republicans took issue with those comments, including...
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ronald reagan wouldn't avoid military strike. i think jimmy carter the regime is not taken seriously. i believe when the iranians look at ronald reagan they saw something differently and released the hostages. >> seems like a dispute in the line in the sand. you're not taking the president at his word but a lot of people will. >> i'm not taking -- i have taken his word. the word containment means military power. sanctions are here. they could go to here. much more significant sanctions could mean what he is talking about unless he clarifies. >> you believe -- >> you're interpreting containment to mean military power. i'm saying he hasn't said that. he didn't clarify that. >> how far down -- i mean, when do you stop diplomacy? you're saying sanctions aren't working as well as they should because of -- should you keep going? >> i'm not sure he should announce that publicly but i think he should have an agreement with president netanyahu on what the bright line test is and no confusion between those two men because we don't israel t
ronald reagan wouldn't avoid military strike. i think jimmy carter the regime is not taken seriously. i believe when the iranians look at ronald reagan they saw something differently and released the hostages. >> seems like a dispute in the line in the sand. you're not taking the president at his word but a lot of people will. >> i'm not taking -- i have taken his word. the word containment means military power. sanctions are here. they could go to here. much more significant...
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he needs to say, ronald reagan wanted that. ronald reagan would have endorsed that. but i think it's actually more interesting to look at what jeb bush is doing because while he's declaring his independence from grover norquist and his party, he's also delivering a kind of vote of no confidence in mitt romney even though he's endorsed him. because i see that as -- it is a bizarre statement for someone if you think -- it's not something you say if you think your party is headed to a great win in november. it's really the kind of thing you hear the morning after an election where you've done very badly. i really wonder what's up with that. >> he's already anticipating a potential loss of mitt romney, should we say? i don't want to put words in your mouth. do you think he's ginning up to that point? >> that's the way i took it. if you're saying we need to race revenues and you -- he also went on to criticize him, you know, quite directly for his immigration, for his really anti-immigrant policies. >> right. >> you know, those are not the kinds of things you do if you ar
he needs to say, ronald reagan wanted that. ronald reagan would have endorsed that. but i think it's actually more interesting to look at what jeb bush is doing because while he's declaring his independence from grover norquist and his party, he's also delivering a kind of vote of no confidence in mitt romney even though he's endorsed him. because i see that as -- it is a bizarre statement for someone if you think -- it's not something you say if you think your party is headed to a great win in...
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reagan, in uttering the words ronald reagan. you can't just say ronald reagan like a spell, and wonderful things begin to happen. in the 2008 presidential campaign, former massachusetts governor mitt romney introduced his reagan zone of economic freedom. not the romney zone of economic freedom, mr. romney does not have that sort of power yet. it was the reagan zone of economic freedom. president obama in his foreign policy team have pursued a policy of taken china's misbehavior to the world trade organization to try to stop china from cheating wherever possible and question their human rights, but romney thinks that turns america into a door mat. he thinks president obama is letting china walk all over him. he would not push china on that wto stuff. his solution instead is to create a reagan zone. a reagan zone for all of the countries around china. while it is extremely unlikely china would join the reagan zone, our offer to allow china to join would modify their trade and industrial behavior. seriously, that's the plan. it's u
reagan, in uttering the words ronald reagan. you can't just say ronald reagan like a spell, and wonderful things begin to happen. in the 2008 presidential campaign, former massachusetts governor mitt romney introduced his reagan zone of economic freedom. not the romney zone of economic freedom, mr. romney does not have that sort of power yet. it was the reagan zone of economic freedom. president obama in his foreign policy team have pursued a policy of taken china's misbehavior to the world...
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this worked great for ronald reagan in political terms. this was one of the main issues he rode to power on in the 1970s. even as people in his own party, even his own friends, saw what he was doing as disgusting and craven and bad for the country. quoting from a book about this chapter of history that i wrote, while william f. buckley and america's beloved tough guy, john wayne, yes that john wayne, campaigned full on for the rat faction of the treaty, reagan said the loss of the panama canal would contribute to encirclement of the united states by hostile naval forces and thereby threaten our ability to survive. even after john wayne sent reagan a private and personal note offering to show him point by gdamn point in the treaty where you are misinforming people and offering fair warning that's it's time for him to shut his pie hole, if you continue to publish these remarks, someone will release the letter saying that you're not as thorough in your reviewing of this or you're damned obtuse when it comes to reading the english language. he
this worked great for ronald reagan in political terms. this was one of the main issues he rode to power on in the 1970s. even as people in his own party, even his own friends, saw what he was doing as disgusting and craven and bad for the country. quoting from a book about this chapter of history that i wrote, while william f. buckley and america's beloved tough guy, john wayne, yes that john wayne, campaigned full on for the rat faction of the treaty, reagan said the loss of the panama canal...
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mitt romney is not ronald reagan. what was striking is how many republicans were willing to say on the record that the comparison just doesn't cut the mustard. those things you just mentioned. the economy is so much weaker, very different electorate. ronald reagan didn't have a tough primary battle the way that mitt romney did. but the biggest difference between these two elections is that the country was so different then. the south was still considered democratic. it was only beginning to trend republican. so the week before the election, you had ronald reagan c campaigning in new york city trying to win new york. jimmy carter was campaigning in texas, unimaginable today. it was a very different map, and that's one of the reasons that it's so hard for romney to win this election. what's amazing is we've seen republicans make this ronald reagan comparison before. about four years ago when john mccain fell in the polls, his people also trying to draw that comparison. >> to your point, let me put up the screen on the r
mitt romney is not ronald reagan. what was striking is how many republicans were willing to say on the record that the comparison just doesn't cut the mustard. those things you just mentioned. the economy is so much weaker, very different electorate. ronald reagan didn't have a tough primary battle the way that mitt romney did. but the biggest difference between these two elections is that the country was so different then. the south was still considered democratic. it was only beginning to...
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when ronald reagan was reelected in 1984, ronald reagan won this many states on the electoral map. you can stop your counting. he won 49. ronald reagan, 49 states. it was a landslide. look at the electoral vote tally. ronald reagan, 525, walter mondale, 25. president reagan decided what he was going to sail toward, what he would prioritize after that overwhelming endorsement of him as president, what he would work on was war in central america. >> president reagan warned of a new danger, support for the leftist government from nicaragua. the president sees that as still another reason we should renew our support of the rebels. >> a new danger we see in central america is the support being given by gadhafi's libya and most recently iran. >> the iranian connection was brought up as he put pressure on congress to resume funding for the rebels in nicaragua. >> countering this by supporting freedom fighters is essentially acting in self-defense. >> self-defense, which would be true if he were the president of nicaragua. but as president of the united states of america, president reagan
when ronald reagan was reelected in 1984, ronald reagan won this many states on the electoral map. you can stop your counting. he won 49. ronald reagan, 49 states. it was a landslide. look at the electoral vote tally. ronald reagan, 525, walter mondale, 25. president reagan decided what he was going to sail toward, what he would prioritize after that overwhelming endorsement of him as president, what he would work on was war in central america. >> president reagan warned of a new danger,...
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ronald reagan up here with the 7.2%. >> right. >> winning. you've got ford and carter and bush in '92 losing with almost the same unemployment rate. the democrats in 1952 losing with a 3% unemployment rate and we can go on. >> a lot of that also has to do with trend lines. obviously the top one with reagan from 10%, 11%. >> that's precisely the point. the previous chart, first chart on trends and it was a good predictor. second chart was level. >> okay. >> let's go to gdp growth. >> and by the way, that's difficult for the president because the unemployment rate exploded the first year or two under the president and then came down. >> that's difficult for the president? >> what i'm saying, i'm saying it's harder to predict about the trend lines for the president because when he came in, you know, we hadn't bottomed out yet. >> that's true. with reagan it went up and came back down. the problem with the president it's not coming down it's flatlining. the unemployment per se is flatlining and that's his problem. to gdp growth under obama has be
ronald reagan up here with the 7.2%. >> right. >> winning. you've got ford and carter and bush in '92 losing with almost the same unemployment rate. the democrats in 1952 losing with a 3% unemployment rate and we can go on. >> a lot of that also has to do with trend lines. obviously the top one with reagan from 10%, 11%. >> that's precisely the point. the previous chart, first chart on trends and it was a good predictor. second chart was level. >> okay. >>...
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saying both ronald reagan and his father, george h.w. bush would have had a tough time nominating today, because both believed in finding common ground and compromise. he calls today's bitter partisan climate disturbing. >>> five-term republican mckotter's stunning dropout in michigan last week. the state is investigating why more than 80% of signatures on mckotter's nominating petitions were bogus. >>> the "denver post" reports that looper's campaign manager sent out a an email praising her vote against colorado's vote despite having a gay son. >>> a klu klux klan chapter wants to adopt a federal stretch of highway in georgia which has some call for an end to the program rather than seeing a battle with the group. >>> obama supporter and "vogue" editor, anna wintour could be named as u.s. ambassador to london this year. >>> country star carrie underwood says she supports same-sex marriage, saying people should have a right to publicly love the people they love. >>> betty white who endorsed president obama a few weeks ago met with him on
saying both ronald reagan and his father, george h.w. bush would have had a tough time nominating today, because both believed in finding common ground and compromise. he calls today's bitter partisan climate disturbing. >>> five-term republican mckotter's stunning dropout in michigan last week. the state is investigating why more than 80% of signatures on mckotter's nominating petitions were bogus. >>> the "denver post" reports that looper's campaign manager sent...
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ronald reagan. ronald reagan. ronald reagan. president reagan. >> gingrich exaggerates, dropping reagan's name 50 time bus in his diaries, gingrich mentioned reagan only once. reagan criticized gingrich saying "newt's's ideas would crime our defense program." reagan rejected newt's ideas on leadership and character and beginning vich no ronald reagan. restore our future is responsible for the content of this message. >> gingrich hit back against that super pac ad last night, arguing that he is more like reagan than is mitt romney. >> governor romney cannot defend his record, he can't defend his past, kent defend what he's done and so his goal is to somehow throw enough mud at me. and i think it's all gonna wash off because the american people are smart enough. i first met with ronald reagan in 1974, i campaigned with him in 1980, i helped him for eight years while he was president, i have made a movie about him, i have written a book about him. to suggest that governor romney is more reagan like than i am is an ac
ronald reagan. ronald reagan. ronald reagan. president reagan. >> gingrich exaggerates, dropping reagan's name 50 time bus in his diaries, gingrich mentioned reagan only once. reagan criticized gingrich saying "newt's's ideas would crime our defense program." reagan rejected newt's ideas on leadership and character and beginning vich no ronald reagan. restore our future is responsible for the content of this message. >> gingrich hit back against that super pac ad last...
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in 1976, ronald reagan didn't get out of the race. he was able to stand tall in may, win the state of texas and he fell short and in the fall, republicans fell short. because we nominated another moderate and then four years later they fought him again. >> so, i mean, i was at that kansas city convention in 1976 and many people think that there were a number of factors but that gerald ford lost in the fall partly because of the reagan challenge. susan paige, is he setting himself up for 2016 and sesaying it's okay for the republicans to lose in the fall, to justify him staying in through tampa? >> he probably wouldn't say that directly but i do think that rick santorum is now thinking is four years ahead and trying to calculate whether get out of the race now, stay in through his home state of pennsylvania. in just over two weeks. there is some comparison i think with 1976 which was a big battle between different factions of the republican party. the more moderates centrist establishment faction won that year but reagan came on four y
in 1976, ronald reagan didn't get out of the race. he was able to stand tall in may, win the state of texas and he fell short and in the fall, republicans fell short. because we nominated another moderate and then four years later they fought him again. >> so, i mean, i was at that kansas city convention in 1976 and many people think that there were a number of factors but that gerald ford lost in the fall partly because of the reagan challenge. susan paige, is he setting himself up for...
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rick santorum, in the party of ronald reagan, is hardly the sunny, optimistic conservative that ronald reagan portrayed himself to be. and so i agree with you, if rick santorum were the nominee, it would be a clear distinction between himself and president obama in terms of message, in terms of philosophy, in terms of vision for the future of this country. >> let's listen to a santorum campaign robo call that's going out in michigan as we speak. >> -- can vote in the republican primary on tuesday. why is it so important? romney's supporting the bailouts for his wall street billionaire buddies but oppose the auto bailouts. that was a slap in the face to every michigan worker. on tuesday, join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. >> rick santorum's getting some criticism in republican circles for that. but john, that is a smart robo call for him? >> any little bit's going to help. it can't hurt for santorum. it's a very close race and democrats are allowed to vote. in 2000, when we saw very similar sort of
rick santorum, in the party of ronald reagan, is hardly the sunny, optimistic conservative that ronald reagan portrayed himself to be. and so i agree with you, if rick santorum were the nominee, it would be a clear distinction between himself and president obama in terms of message, in terms of philosophy, in terms of vision for the future of this country. >> let's listen to a santorum campaign robo call that's going out in michigan as we speak. >> -- can vote in the republican...
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reagan, where george w. bush, president bush was at on this issue. so far out of the mainstream when he's campaigning with the author of the alabama and arizona laws. >> he says arizona should be a model for the nation. >> it's going to be very difficult to try to move away from what he said and what he's done. i didn't see him challenge mr. john mccain when he said he would electrify the fence. when you're a leader and you hear someone say something like that, you say no, not on my watch. i want to be a uniter. you solve the problems in a more humane way. they will make that effort. i don't think who you pick for vice president is really made a difference for the most part. they may try to do something like that. there's no question that they are going to try to move away from where they have been with respect to this primary. i think it's important for the media to make sure they are honest about who they are and what they have done. >> i have to ask you one last issue about the jails. the system is so big
reagan, where george w. bush, president bush was at on this issue. so far out of the mainstream when he's campaigning with the author of the alabama and arizona laws. >> he says arizona should be a model for the nation. >> it's going to be very difficult to try to move away from what he said and what he's done. i didn't see him challenge mr. john mccain when he said he would electrify the fence. when you're a leader and you hear someone say something like that, you say no, not on my...
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i think the other interesting comparison to ronald reagan is there's two ronald reagans. there was the ronald reagan who worked with democrats, who made tax reform a priority will you also raised taxes, who signed the federal law that requires that hospitals have to treat poor people when they come into the e.r. ronald reagan worked across the aisle on a lot of things and then there's the ronald reagan we hear about only in the gop primary debates, a conserve ty ideologue at every turn. if you talk about the first reagan, obama has tried to follow that path, but he's had less cooperation on offer from the congress. he didn't -- >> chris, can i make two points about that. >> he didn't want to keep -- >> sorry. that reagan ended his first term with a higher misery index than obama currently has. reagan's recession was also a fairly induced recession in order to wring inflation out of the economy, and it happened and began on his watch. obama inherited a financial collapse recession which of their nature lasts longer, and it happened before he got there. i think that helps e
i think the other interesting comparison to ronald reagan is there's two ronald reagans. there was the ronald reagan who worked with democrats, who made tax reform a priority will you also raised taxes, who signed the federal law that requires that hospitals have to treat poor people when they come into the e.r. ronald reagan worked across the aisle on a lot of things and then there's the ronald reagan we hear about only in the gop primary debates, a conserve ty ideologue at every turn. if you...
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reagan. >> when ronald reagan talks about god, when paul ryan talks about god, he exists. not that he doesn't exist outside of the middle part of the country, but he's alive and well between new york and california. >> reaganesque attributes. >> ronald reagan. >> i think he's more like barry goldwater, but that's another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out they're totally wrong. one of reagan's own budget architects wrote a scathing critique of ryan's plan in the times. they say his budget yields only a rounding error's worth of savings. and it boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income tax rate for the super wealthy in america. and reagan's budget director goes on to say he calls ryan's plan phony and calls it devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. so we thought tonight we would take a closer look just at the numbers. joins me is david kay johnson, pulitzer prize winning writer. medicare, the way they want to do this right now, ryan wants to turn it into a voucher. this is what
reagan. >> when ronald reagan talks about god, when paul ryan talks about god, he exists. not that he doesn't exist outside of the middle part of the country, but he's alive and well between new york and california. >> reaganesque attributes. >> ronald reagan. >> i think he's more like barry goldwater, but that's another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out they're totally wrong. one of...
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go back and read what the editorial board of "the new york times" wrote about ronald reagan. go back and read what main -- i mean, my god, seriously? if somebody decided to just write a book on slanderous quotes against ronald reagan throughout the 1980s by the people now saying, well, you know, he was a reasonable republican, that would be a fun book to read. >> but what do you think about that argument that, ronald reagan wouldn't recognize his own party? >> it's very simple. very, very simple. and we go back to father pat buchanan, who always -- >> mon-signore. >> and this is the way that -- i mean, you should look at it. he always talked about political athletes. barack obama was a great political athlete. hillary clinton, a great political athlete. in 2012, the conservatives were the clunkers. that didn't run the 4.3 40. they run the 7.4 40 while eating a big mac and smoking a cigarette. and mitt romney wasn't flashy, but the moderate this year had the best operation, was best in the debates, and was the best political athlete, which again is not saying a whole lot. but
go back and read what the editorial board of "the new york times" wrote about ronald reagan. go back and read what main -- i mean, my god, seriously? if somebody decided to just write a book on slanderous quotes against ronald reagan throughout the 1980s by the people now saying, well, you know, he was a reasonable republican, that would be a fun book to read. >> but what do you think about that argument that, ronald reagan wouldn't recognize his own party? >> it's very...
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reagan. >> and ronald reagan who is a natural step in what we have always found in the country a democrat, lower case d, synthesis. >> and i'm surprised at jfk, because a martyred president whose assassination shaped the way a generation of historians and writers have looked at him as a fallen good president, and do you believe that jfk will farewell 50 years from now? >> yes. i base my opinion on evan's great treatment of his treatment of bobby kennedy, because when you think of the son of a president, an appeaser who is sitting around in a room having the manhood and the courage challenged by generals over nuclear missiles and his having the courage to compromise and to make the deal he made to avoid what could have been a nuclear war in october of 1962, and yeah, you get on the mountain. >> so when is it going to matter how a president treats women? >> soon. [ laughter ] >> that is a weighted question by someone who would never put jfk or another certain president on there. >> because of the personal conduct? >> yes. >> and treating people who are in many ways far below him on a level
reagan. >> and ronald reagan who is a natural step in what we have always found in the country a democrat, lower case d, synthesis. >> and i'm surprised at jfk, because a martyred president whose assassination shaped the way a generation of historians and writers have looked at him as a fallen good president, and do you believe that jfk will farewell 50 years from now? >> yes. i base my opinion on evan's great treatment of his treatment of bobby kennedy, because when you think...
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ronald reagan said no to war with the soviet union. ronald reagan actually said yes to reducing the number of nuclear weapons in both sides arsenal's. ronald reagan was a figure almost more comfortable in barack obama's democratic party and his wing -- >> don't say that too loudly. >> check your twitter feed. >> just exploded. >> we have to take a break but we are waiting for the president to speak at the clinton global initiative. meanwhile, president obama and governor romney also spoke at nbc's education nation summit. big times. we will discuss their remarks. also paul ryan weighs in on the last night's nfl controversy and brings it back to, guess who, president obama. all of that is next on "now." want to try to crack it? yeah, that's the way to do it! now we need a little bit more... a little bit more vanilla? this is great! [ male announcer ] at humana, we believe there's never been a better time to share your passions... because the results... are you having fun doing this? yeah. that's a very nice cake! [ male announcer ] well
ronald reagan said no to war with the soviet union. ronald reagan actually said yes to reducing the number of nuclear weapons in both sides arsenal's. ronald reagan was a figure almost more comfortable in barack obama's democratic party and his wing -- >> don't say that too loudly. >> check your twitter feed. >> just exploded. >> we have to take a break but we are waiting for the president to speak at the clinton global initiative. meanwhile, president obama and governor...
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the seller of the vial has decided to donate the vile to the ronald reagan foundation. the auction was scheduled to end tonight. before it's suspension, bidding had topped $30,000. >>> coming up, sandra fluke on why protecting a woman's right to fairway is not a republican priority. >>> ezra klein on high gas proos ---and i'll look at why romney is not -- ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal -- heart-healthy, whole grain oats. you can't go wrong loving it. with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not app
the seller of the vial has decided to donate the vile to the ronald reagan foundation. the auction was scheduled to end tonight. before it's suspension, bidding had topped $30,000. >>> coming up, sandra fluke on why protecting a woman's right to fairway is not a republican priority. >>> ezra klein on high gas proos ---and i'll look at why romney is not -- ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that...
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reagan supported and ronald reagan, were he able to talk about it, would likely not support barack obama. he would be supporting mitt romney. that being said, it's good for a democrat to speak well of democrats, democrats speak well of republicans. that's the point here. the battle is for the middle and i think it's going to be a hard-fought battle to win swing voters and independents. >> if we buy into that sort of strategy, the reason that both sides are doing it, i'm trying to figure out why romney has multiple times brought up, and not in a favorable light, former president jimmy carter. take a listen to that. >> it was the most antismall business administration i've seen probably since carter. who would guess we would look back at the carter as the good ol' days. >> romney asked if he would have ordered that strike to kill osama bin laden and he said, quote, even jimmy carter would have given that order. so, daniela, what's the point here, do you think? >> i think he's just trying to, obviously, get some cheap digs in at former president carter. honestly, he's a little -- it's benea
reagan supported and ronald reagan, were he able to talk about it, would likely not support barack obama. he would be supporting mitt romney. that being said, it's good for a democrat to speak well of democrats, democrats speak well of republicans. that's the point here. the battle is for the middle and i think it's going to be a hard-fought battle to win swing voters and independents. >> if we buy into that sort of strategy, the reason that both sides are doing it, i'm trying to figure...
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and ronald reagan went ahead and did it anyway. and since it was illegal and he couldn't get the money from congress to do it, in order to fund this illegal thing he wanted to do, he sold weapons to iran, seriously. and yeah, this was after the hostage crisis. this was at a time when it was very clearly illegal to sell weapons to iran. illegal. very obviously. it's not like we weren't paying attention to iran at the time o there was some loophole or something. it was blatantly, flagrantly illegal. where reagan got the money from and also what he did with the money, illegal. he broke the law overtly and on purpose. and these were huge, international, world-changing crimes. this was not putting a bug in the office of the democratic party chairman's office, right? this was not stealing somebody's psychiatric records, like watergate was, right? this was missiles to iran, that really did get delivered in order to fund the breaking of another law in central america. and when reagan got caught, as he inevitably had to, the reagan administ
and ronald reagan went ahead and did it anyway. and since it was illegal and he couldn't get the money from congress to do it, in order to fund this illegal thing he wanted to do, he sold weapons to iran, seriously. and yeah, this was after the hostage crisis. this was at a time when it was very clearly illegal to sell weapons to iran. illegal. very obviously. it's not like we weren't paying attention to iran at the time o there was some loophole or something. it was blatantly, flagrantly...
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ronald reagan on policy, he's a close student of reagan, the politician, we know. and he knows that ronald reagan brought to the table in 1980 and again in 1984 when he ran and won by a landslide, was optimism, talking about the future. and you can see barack obama trying to do that. and you can also see, i think, mitt romney pivot, and pivot very strongly and say, listen, forget about what happened in the primary/caucus campaign. i'm pivoting to the future and i'm here to tell you that the future, i'm the best guy to lead the future. now, he will also try to demonize president obama. and the best thing the republicans have going for them, i know right now there are many people who think, oh, gosh, obama's going to win this election. my personal opinion is this election is going to be close. anybody who thinks that mitt romney or whoever it turns out to be as the republican candidate will be easy to beat in november has another thing coming. this should be a republican year. one question is whether the republicans this year will snatch defeat from the jaws of victo
ronald reagan on policy, he's a close student of reagan, the politician, we know. and he knows that ronald reagan brought to the table in 1980 and again in 1984 when he ran and won by a landslide, was optimism, talking about the future. and you can see barack obama trying to do that. and you can also see, i think, mitt romney pivot, and pivot very strongly and say, listen, forget about what happened in the primary/caucus campaign. i'm pivoting to the future and i'm here to tell you that the...
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bill clinton had something in common with ronald reagan. the two of them both knew how to make an argument. i think a the lo of times we underestimate how important it is for a politician to make an argument to the voters and keep making it. here's why i'm doing what i'm doing. here's why it makes sense. here's why what the other guy wants to do doesn't make sense. bill clinton is one of the best people we have in politics and even though i didn't agree with him, ronald reagan was good at doing that, too. why not haul out your best argument maker and i think that's what they are doing here, too. >> they are political sermonizers, right? you tell them what you're going to tell them, then you tell them, then you tell them what you told them. it seems to me bill clinton is expert at that. four years ago obama was not invoking ronald reagan, as you say, speaking of someone who could give that kind of speech. what does this full embrace of clinton say of a shot so subtle shift? >> well, you know, a lot of people look at it that way. i think obam
bill clinton had something in common with ronald reagan. the two of them both knew how to make an argument. i think a the lo of times we underestimate how important it is for a politician to make an argument to the voters and keep making it. here's why i'm doing what i'm doing. here's why it makes sense. here's why what the other guy wants to do doesn't make sense. bill clinton is one of the best people we have in politics and even though i didn't agree with him, ronald reagan was good at doing...
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reagan. that's as good as you're going to get from me. >> so the reason that we got our own contract is that everybody knew what reagan wanted to do in central america. he was very overt about it and he had great approval ratings and had gotten people very excited about a lot of things and the aftermath after assassination attempt had his approval ratings very, very high as people had sympathy for what he had gone through. he felt like he could move people to do anything. he really felt that he was this great communicator in central america. he really wanted us to be militarily involved and could not persuade congress and he could not persuade the american public and writes in his diaries how frustrated he is. congress, it's no secret, everybody says, we hear your case. no. not doing it. congress passes a lot saying, we know what you want to do. you can't do it. you can't do it through the military. you can't do it through the cia, some agency we don't know about it, you can't do it, period,
reagan. that's as good as you're going to get from me. >> so the reason that we got our own contract is that everybody knew what reagan wanted to do in central america. he was very overt about it and he had great approval ratings and had gotten people very excited about a lot of things and the aftermath after assassination attempt had his approval ratings very, very high as people had sympathy for what he had gone through. he felt like he could move people to do anything. he really felt...
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it's like ronald reagan. ronald reagan, yes, ronald reagan, grit debater, great communicator, but mike, you remember, everybody thought ronald reagan was crazy. jimmy carter had been saying he was going to blow up the world. ronald reagan just had to convince people that he was less like the mad hatter and more like grandpa. and the expectations were low. so romney's expectations are so low here that when he stands toe to toe with obama and beats him in a debate even by a little bit -- >> well, that's a strategy. lower the bar. >> -- then he wins. zmoo that's a whole new narrative for him. he's not going to get there. the clip we just showed of governor romney down in saras a sarasota, florida, basically saying the president just said washington can't be changed from within. we've got to get him out now. i just don't think people listen to that stuff. for the life of me, i don't understand why the governor and his campaign don't have one set speech basically saying here's how i'm going to put this country to
it's like ronald reagan. ronald reagan, yes, ronald reagan, grit debater, great communicator, but mike, you remember, everybody thought ronald reagan was crazy. jimmy carter had been saying he was going to blow up the world. ronald reagan just had to convince people that he was less like the mad hatter and more like grandpa. and the expectations were low. so romney's expectations are so low here that when he stands toe to toe with obama and beats him in a debate even by a little bit -- >>...
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ronald reagan also tapped in and linked them not to the idea of more government but to the idea of free enterprise and freeing the government. so it's a familiar conservative theme and i think ryan who's been around in conservative circles for a long time is trying to govern that idea. my take hear on the declaration is it's bigger than that. it's elastic and it's a growing document just like the constitution is. it's a living document, not a dead one. although it seems silly, j joy-ann. it's like i'm totally ready to have a theory conversation with them. >> what they believe you just said is the problem. they don't like the idea of an expansive definition of liberty. they want to go back to a frontier america. nink you talk to conservatives and read a lot of what they write, what they're upset about, the popular media, everything has appeared to sort of hide their ideas or make them embarrassed about them. their idea is before the 20th century america was the better place. where you didn't tax wealth, where you didn't tax corporations and where it was up to your own enterprise and pluc
ronald reagan also tapped in and linked them not to the idea of more government but to the idea of free enterprise and freeing the government. so it's a familiar conservative theme and i think ryan who's been around in conservative circles for a long time is trying to govern that idea. my take hear on the declaration is it's bigger than that. it's elastic and it's a growing document just like the constitution is. it's a living document, not a dead one. although it seems silly, j joy-ann. it's...
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there was a bias in 1980 when ronald reagan won 41 states, in 1984 when ronald reagan won 84 states, i mean 49 states. there was a libial media bias in 1988 when george h.w. bush destroyed michael due caucus, in 2000 and 2004. get over it. >> peggy said it best. you've got to transcend it if you're a republican. >> compared to all of those other elections, there were -- there was nothing like the conservative media counterweight that there is now. >> right. >> so to the extent that there is some degree of liberal bias, in 1980, there was no fox news in 1980. there was no conservative blogosphere. >> talk radio. >> there was no talk radio. >> matt drudge. >> if anything, the world is much more -- if you look at the full spectrum of media, there's much more diversity and conservatives have plenty loud megaphone in our media environment today. >> and look at the conservatives over the past week, week and a half, that have said hey, there's a problem here. i said it on saturday. "the wall street journal" said it last sunday. laura ingram came out on monday, rush on tuesday, was talking -
there was a bias in 1980 when ronald reagan won 41 states, in 1984 when ronald reagan won 84 states, i mean 49 states. there was a libial media bias in 1988 when george h.w. bush destroyed michael due caucus, in 2000 and 2004. get over it. >> peggy said it best. you've got to transcend it if you're a republican. >> compared to all of those other elections, there were -- there was nothing like the conservative media counterweight that there is now. >> right. >> so to the...
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but president ronald reagan turned that from a declared war into a literal one. why declare a war on drugs? from the outset it had relatively little to do with genuine concern about drug addiction and abuse and nearly everything to do with politics, racial politics. numerous historians have documented that the war on drugs was part of that grand republican party strategy known as the southern strategy of using racially coded get tough appeals on issues of crime and welfare to appeal to poor and working class whites, particularly in the south who are anxious about and resentful of many of the gains of african-americans in the civil rights movement. when president ronald reagan declared a drug war was was to get tough on a group of people not so subtly defined by race. >> i would like you to respond to -- hearing that i think that tracks with the way i think of the politics of this but it also is the case that we had this remarkable explosion of crime in the country that created the conditions -- created a receptivity among the populace for the message. the crime r
but president ronald reagan turned that from a declared war into a literal one. why declare a war on drugs? from the outset it had relatively little to do with genuine concern about drug addiction and abuse and nearly everything to do with politics, racial politics. numerous historians have documented that the war on drugs was part of that grand republican party strategy known as the southern strategy of using racially coded get tough appeals on issues of crime and welfare to appeal to poor and...
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so, too, would ronald reagan, competing in this republican party. i think it does exist in both parties. the national journal has documented the hyper partisanship that exists in the senate among democrats and republicans. >> i appreciate you saying he expanded on. the reality is michael, that ronald reagan would not fit in the republican party as it is today. that's what he said in his initial comment. grover norquist called it bizarre. one blogger saying a steaming pile of nonsense. then we get the follow-up twitter. why isn't that a backtrack? we talk about the troubles of the party today. >> because in the follow-up twitter, he doesn't retract any of those statements. he expands upon them. i don't hear where he is taking back anything that he offered. the fact it is coming from jeb bush makes him upset. >> he does go on both sides are doing this. at the time, he was focused in -- we were talking about women's issues. we might relate to each other as a woman and some of the things apply to men. he was talking about the problem in his quote/unquot
so, too, would ronald reagan, competing in this republican party. i think it does exist in both parties. the national journal has documented the hyper partisanship that exists in the senate among democrats and republicans. >> i appreciate you saying he expanded on. the reality is michael, that ronald reagan would not fit in the republican party as it is today. that's what he said in his initial comment. grover norquist called it bizarre. one blogger saying a steaming pile of nonsense....
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nixon was better in the second, gerald ford came back, ronald reagan came back after the disaster. and one assumes that president obama is doing the homework to make sure it happens. >> so johnathan, giving what larry describes here, does this mean the president has to come back and do just a solid debate performance or does he have to blow the socks off this one? >> just a solid performance. you know, he does have a lead, he lost, at most, two points. one to two points out of this last week, so he is going to be going in at this next debate, unless something else happens, which is not likely. you know, with a four-point lead, possibly. so if he can just deliver a solid performance, he will be fine. the danger for him is over compensating. so they talked about al gore, when he was sighing, and demeanor was not good, gore over-compensated again in the third debate, so that is something that people who have had a poor debate performance have to worry about. >> larry, i want to ask you about this very quickly, the next debate style will be town hall. we talked about how the president
nixon was better in the second, gerald ford came back, ronald reagan came back after the disaster. and one assumes that president obama is doing the homework to make sure it happens. >> so johnathan, giving what larry describes here, does this mean the president has to come back and do just a solid debate performance or does he have to blow the socks off this one? >> just a solid performance. you know, he does have a lead, he lost, at most, two points. one to two points out of this...
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they compare mitt romney to the republican challenger ronald reagan who came from behind in the polls to defeat a democratic president. now the romney team was banking on a bounce like ronald reagan got after the republican national convention. the chairman predicted a significant post convention bounce for the candidate. >> i think we're going to get a bump. we have a better opportunity for a bump as a challenging party so when people get to know mitt romney and get to know who he is and the decent man he is and his story of the american dream and his generosity, i can tell you that i think it's going to be real and visible. >> it's pretty clear things vice haven't worked out the way republicans hoped. there was no bounce for romney. and there's a substantial bounce for president obama out of their convention. in the new cnn poll taken after the democratic national convention, president obama leads mitt romney among likely voters by six points. republican pollsters have the president with a similar lead in its latest poll. mitt romney's reagan plan didn't work. now it's time to bring
they compare mitt romney to the republican challenger ronald reagan who came from behind in the polls to defeat a democratic president. now the romney team was banking on a bounce like ronald reagan got after the republican national convention. the chairman predicted a significant post convention bounce for the candidate. >> i think we're going to get a bump. we have a better opportunity for a bump as a challenging party so when people get to know mitt romney and get to know who he is and...
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there were more probably inclined for ronald reagan but clark reid, who i hope may be watching today, in fact, he's still there in mississippi and he decided they would go with president ford and that made the difference, and president ford got the nomination. very strong challenge from president reagan. in 1980, we had another kind of unscripted moment which was that ronald reagan was trying to get vice presidential candidate and jerry ford was at the bargaining table with him for most of that night. people forget that. people also have to remember that in 1980, in new york, it was teddy kennedy and jimmy carter in an unscripted moment. teddy was not going to get the nomination but was still going to be a big player on the convention floor and he gave one of the great memorable speeches. >> the dream will never die. >> the dream will never die. he electrified the crowd. poor jimmy carter was on the stage, trying to get his attention and senator kennedy, for his own reasons, chose to ignore him which was i thought unfair to the president. >> teddy kennedy never took his outstretched h
there were more probably inclined for ronald reagan but clark reid, who i hope may be watching today, in fact, he's still there in mississippi and he decided they would go with president ford and that made the difference, and president ford got the nomination. very strong challenge from president reagan. in 1980, we had another kind of unscripted moment which was that ronald reagan was trying to get vice presidential candidate and jerry ford was at the bargaining table with him for most of that...